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What is the fundamental principle of all biology? Correct answer-Evolution
Forces observed today act the same way as they did in the past Correct answer-Uniformitarianism
Younger rocks deposited above older rocks Correct answer-Superposition
The picking out of individuals with any desired quality and breeding from them Correct answer-
Artificial selection
What is the primary mechanism of evolutionary change? Correct answer-Natural selection
1) more individuals are born that can survive/reproduce 2) Individuals vary in most traits
3)Individuals with certain traits are more likely to survive and reproduce 4) Variation is at least partly
heritable Correct answer-Natural selection 4 hypotheses
Structures change over an individuals lifetime and pass on those acquired characters to descendants
- INCORRECT Correct answer-Lamarkian evolution
Inheritance of pre-existing characters, change over generations in the proportion of individuals in a
population that possess a heritable trait Correct answer-Darwinian evolution
Who said that forces molding the planet have operated continuously throughout history? Correct
answer-Charles Lyell
Who said there is a limit to how many living things can survive? Correct answer-Thomas Malthus
Who said that every species came from a related, pre-existing species? Correct answer-Alfred
Russell Wallace
Deoxyribonucleic acid, information storage molecule made up of nucleotides Correct answer-DNA
Phosphate, sugar, and nitrogenous base Correct answer-Nucleotides
(AGCT) variation in DNA< can appear in any order along strand Correct answer-Nitrogenous bases
(GUAC) Ribonucleic acid, assists with synthesis of proteins Correct answer-RNA
Made in transcription, codes for proteins in translation Correct answer-Messenger RNA (mRNA)
Moves amino acids into place in translation Correct answer-Transfer RNA (tRNA)
Physical machinery, holds amino acid in place Correct answer-Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
Formation of 2 identical double stranded DNA molecules from 1 copy Correct answer-DNA
replication
, DNA to mRNA (AGCT - GUAC) Correct answer-Transcription
RNA to proteins Correct answer-Translation
Coding regions that are removed in translation Correct answer-Introns
Non-coding regions that are spliced together in translation Correct answer-Exons
Triplets of nucleotides that code for amino acids Correct answer-Genetic code
Triplet of nucleotides "r group" Correct answer-Codons
Made of codons, makes proteins Correct answer-Amino acids
20 different amino acids together Correct answer-Protein/polypeptide
Made of DNA and protein Correct answer-Chromosomes
Holds together translation Correct answer-Ribosome
Proteins that make sure processes run smoothly Correct answer-Enzymes
Determines shape and function ofa protein Correct answer-Coding sequence
base-pair substitution Correct answer-Point mutations
No effect on phenotype Correct answer-Silent
Change in amino acid sequence Correct answer-Missense
Codes for a stop Correct answer-Nonsense
deletion or insertion, usually fatal Correct answer-Frame-shift
Replication of uni-cellular organisms Correct answer-Binary fission
Replication of multi-cellular organisms Correct answer-Mitosis
Haploid daughters of diploid original Correct answer-Meiosis
1 set of unpaired chromosomes Correct answer-Haploid cell
2 sets of paired chromosomes Correct answer-Diploid cell
Unspliced exon Correct answer-Splice site mutation
eggs and sperm cells that will undergo meiosis Correct answer-Gametes
What is DNA organized into? Correct answer-Chromosomes
2 identical copies of a chromosome Correct answer-Sibling chromatids